Scenography, Exhibition Theory, Critical Museology, Spatial Media.
Ruth Scheel is a lecturer at several BA and MA programmes at the HGK Basel and works as a scenographer and concepter in the fields of exhibition design and spatial design.

Ruth Katharina Scheel is a scenographer and graduated from the University of Portsmouth (Master of Arts in European Media), followed by post-graduate studies at Central St. Martins College of Art London (Master of Arts Scenography). The main fields of her teaching and research are at the intersection of narrative spaces, exhibition theory, critical museology and spatial media. Over the last 10 years Ruth Scheel has been lecturing at various Colleges and Universities in Switzerland and internationally.

Since 2010 lecturer at:
ICDP Institute of Contempory Design Practices // Interior Architecture and Scenography
IADE Institute Art and Design Education // CoCreate Programme
Master Studio Design // MA Scenography

2016
Visiting Professor Hochschule Pforzheim

2013
Visiting Professor
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

2003 - 2004
Scenography Postgraduate Studies at Central St. Martins College of Art London

• Master of Arts in Scenography

1998 - 2002
Time based media and visual communication studies at Merz-Akademie Stuttgart and the University of Portsmouth

• Master of Arts in European Media
• Dipl. Designer FH
  

• Ausstellen im Diskurs, since FS10
• Szenografie: narrative Räume, since HS10
• Burning Issues - Formen und Formate kritischer Museumsarbeit, Co-Teaching mit Heike Dürscheid
• Hyper Places: immersive und intermediale Raumerfahrungen, FS21
• In search of traces: Postkoloniales Ausstellen, HS21
• Ding.Welten / Text.Räume. Co-Teaching mit Heike Dürscheidt, FS20
• 3rd places revisited, HS20
• Das Exponat - eine Spurensuche, HS19
• Die neuen dritten Orte - urbane Heterotopien? FS18
• Suture: Grenzen des filmischen Raumes, HS18
• Hunters & Collectors: Eine Kosmologie des Sammelns, FS17
• Brand Scenography: Narrative Räume der Konsumkultur, HS17
• Expanded Media: Vom Filmraum zum Raumfilm, FS16
• Faux Terrain: Das Panorama als Medienform, HS16
• Expos, Malls und Mikrostaaten - die Poesie zeitgenössischer urbaner Heterotopien, HS15 - Argumentation und Begriffsbildung, FS11 - FS14
• Rezeption, Recherche und Lektüre, HS11 - HS14
  

• 6/2016 „of matter“, in: Alphabet City - an inverse archaeology of narrative space.
  Frank den Oudsten (Hrsg.), Adunic, 2016. Textbeitrag in Kooperation mit Zoe Laughlin,
  Institute of Making, University College London
• 12/2014„Wenn Räume sprechen lernen“, Artikel, in: Zumtobel Magazin Lightlife. Dezember 2014. Co-Autor Tim Gutke.
• 5/2013 „Schaufensterkultur - Inszenierte Warenwelten in Basel“, Publikation
  Stiftung pro Klingentalmuseum Basel (Hrsg.)
  200 Seiten, 118 farbige Abbildungen, Christoph Merian Verlag, 2013
  Mit Beiträgen von: Dorothee Huber, Ulrike Jehle-Strathaus, Pamela C. Scorzin, Nadja Elia-Bohrer, Matthias Remmele und Claude Enderle
• 9/2010 „Der State Grid-Pavillon auf der Expo Shanghai“, Artikel in: Plot Magazin.
  

In addition to teaching, she is involved in the academic community as part of expert panels, conferences and professional networks for women. Since 2012 she is the artistic director of „Hunters & Collectors“, a regular series of panel discussions dealing with the topic of private / non-institutional collecting, supported by Kulturförderung Stuttgart.

• 11/2020 Raumwelten Festival Ludwigsburg „Szenografie - quo vadis“
• 11/2018 ZKM Karlsruhe „Learning takes Place“. Cooperation of ZKM and KIT.
• 8/2017 SWR2 Radio „Schaufensterkultur - Inszenierte Warenwelt in Basel“
• 9/2013 and 9/2016 SAWI Luzern, Course Programme Cultural Management
• 1/2012 and 1/2014 Universität Zürich Executive Master in Arts Administration
• 5/2015 Scenography Summit Berlin EIS-Konference (European Initiative Scenography)
• 9/2013 Walther König book store, Stuttgart „Schaufensterkultur - Inszenierte Warenwelt in Basel“

Dép-Arts Mentoring-Programm der Hochschule für Kunst Bern EIS (European Initiative Scenography)